SVLDL: Improved Speaker Age Estimation Using Selective Variance Label Distribution Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09524v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 01:34:31 GMT
• Title: SVLDL: Improved Speaker Age Estimation Using Selective Variance Label Distribution Learning
• Authors: Zuheng Kang, Jianzong Wang, Junqing Peng, Jing Xiao
• Abstract summary: We propose selective variance label distribution learning (SVLDL) method to adapt the variance of different age distributions. Model uses WavLM as the speech feature extractor and adds the auxiliary task of gender recognition to further improve the performance. Experiments show that the model achieves state-of-the-art performance on all aspects of the NIST SRE08-10 and a real-world datasets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Estimating age from a single speech is a classic and challenging topic. Although Label Distribution Learning (LDL) can represent adjacent indistinguishable ages well, the uncertainty of the age estimate for each utterance varies from person to person, i.e., the variance of the age distribution is different. To address this issue, we propose selective variance label distribution learning (SVLDL) method to adapt the variance of different age distributions. Furthermore, the model uses WavLM as the speech feature extractor and adds the auxiliary task of gender recognition to further improve the performance. Two tricks are applied on the loss function to enhance the robustness of the age estimation and improve the quality of the fitted age distribution. Extensive experiments show that the model achieves state-of-the-art performance on all aspects of the NIST SRE08-10 and a real-world datasets.

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